@article {article1435, title = {Stop looking through the GDP prism}, author = {Ranjit K Pattnaik,Jagdish Rattanani}, journal = {Foundation of The Billion Press}, date = 2017-08-02, year = 2017, url = https://www.thebillionpress.org/columns/stop-looking-through-gdp-prism-1435, Abstract = {The obsession with GDP growth is despite the fact that the number is not easily relatable to anything the citizen feels or does. So while in the US, it is the jobless rate that can be political dynamite, in India it is GDP growth that remains a metric that everybody quotes but very few understand.} }